Microsoft Edge Add-ons: undocumented getproductdetailsbycrxid JSON endpoint works keyless; 404 is plain text

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# Microsoft Edge Add-ons — an undocumented JSON product-detail endpoint works keyless

## Probe

```
curl -D - "https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/getproductdetailsbycrxid/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak"
curl -D - "https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/getproductdetailsbycrxid/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
```

## Observed

Unlike the Chrome Web Store (no documented API at all), Edge's own
internal store endpoint `getproductdetailsbycrxid/<32-char-crx-id>` is live,
unauthenticated, and returns a full `application/json` payload for a real
Chromium-compatible extension id even though no "Edge Add-ons API" is
published anywhere for third parties: `activeInstallCount`,
`storeProductId`, `name`, `logoUrl`, `description`, `availability` (an
array of capability flags: `Details`, `Fulfill`, `License`, `Purchase`,
`Browse`, `Curate`, `Redeem`), and more — 6,640 bytes for uBlock Origin's
record alone. The id accepted is the same 32-character CRX id Chrome uses
(Edge's add-ons store mirrors or reuses Chromium extension ids).

A syntactically identical but nonexistent id gets a clean `HTTP/2 404` with
a plain-text body (`Status Code: 404; Not Found`), not JSON — so the
content-type itself (`application/json` vs `text/plain`) is a second,
redundant signal for existence alongside the status code.

Every response on both calls carries Microsoft's internal routing headers
(`x-falcon-ref`, `ms-cv`, `x-msedge-ref`) which echo back a literal replay
of the UTC request time in `Ref C` — useful as a free server-side clock
check but not something this record relies on for timing.

Content negotiation via `Accept-Language` does not change the response
shape either: sending `Accept-Language: fr-FR` against the same real id
still returns `HTTP 200` with the identical JSON structure (the
description text itself was not diffed field-by-field in this probe, only
the status/shape); this endpoint does not appear to branch on locale the
way a browser-rendered Edge Add-ons listing page would.

## How observed

2026-10-05T11:13:00Z–11:13:06Z (real/bogus id) and 2026-10-05T11:18:54Z
(Accept-Language variant), plain `curl` GET, default UA, no key.

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